St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-23

Rich Odors of the pumpkin pie;
While from the festive barn yard sounds
The turkeys agonizing cry.
Not Tennyson.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving day.
Many newspapers in the coun-
each year, giving the stereotyped eX-
PLANTATION of why the day is observed.
With all due reverence for the custom
this article isn't going to be built that
way. You all know what ThankSgiv
ing day is. Some writers have mistaken
ideas as to Thanksgiving yarns. Some
write stories about Little Willie's
Thanksgiving" ending it where ''Jittle
Willie lies stiff and cold in the front
parlor while the November sun, illumin
ating his brow tells that Lit
tie Willie has had a glorious
thanksgiving" There's nothing to be
date in six feet of cold clay. Others
write about the ''Old mans thanksgiy-
ing" where an old gray-headed fellow
catches young beauty for wife.
There is nothing in this to be thankful
for, as people hate to see old men catch
the young, sweet beauties. The day, of
course, ''scripturally" speaking, is more
than worthy of universal observance,
but when the dealer in turkeys informs
you that the price has gone up cents a
pound, you don't stumble all over the
street in your great hurry to get home
and give thanks. Many people eat their
Thanksgiving dinner OH sour stomach.
The careful housewife, however, knows
thing or two and generally gets
REVENGE ON THE TURKEY
man, as the following incident shows:
''IS that turkey diSeased?" asked the
GLOBE man, stopping at long table in
front of the market house. on which
was a large collection of birds. and
pointing to one that had a smallpox ap-
pearance.
''Oh, no." said he, ''those spots are
merely finger nail holes"
what"
Ladies' when buying turkeys pinch
'em to see if they're tender. put that
one in front so they can wear the sharp
edge off their finger nails on him, before
they tackle the next"
OF course this man wasn't giving
thanks very hard. but he had no right
to complain, as at this stage of the game
it stood ''hOrse an horse" and the
scribe passed into a grocery where he
found that cranberrieS, sweet potatoes.
pumpkins and celery had not advanced
in price. The prices of meats, such as
lamb, mutton. spare ribs, rOaStS. etc,
remain as usual. People who are ac-
custOmed to having meats know what
the prices are. Those who never have
any meat probably wont have any
more tomorrow than they usually have,
so it is unnecessary to give long list OF
prices. Now that the above points are
thoroughly settled to the satisfaction of
none, it may be well to state that the
reason people eat turkey on Thanksgiv
inn ho- hnon fully avNloinn6
1t remains fSr the GLOBE to settle the
question satisfactorily and completely.
Some people eat turkey because they
don't eat cheese. Others eat it because
they like it better than fried eggs.
Others eat it to be in style. There is
nothing that cOmpels them to eat it,
neither is there anything forbidding
them to eat it. Just the same some eat
it and some don't. The reasons some of
them dOn't are many. Some don't eat
it because they haven't got it. Some
because they can't get it. Still others
because
-- THEY DON'T LIKE IT
for the reason that they haven't got it
and can't get it. However, the people
of Minnesota have many reasons for
thankfulness. They have reason to give
thanks for being protected from disease
and epidemic. OF course this is hard on
the doctors, but it can't be helped. They
have reason TO be thankful for abund-
dant crops and delightful weather that
has held off the coal man little longer
than usual. They can give thanks that
the cable carS-are coming: that the
state house still stands; that there have
been charity balls, giving them an OPP
pOrtunity 10 elbow in so or SIS. In
fact they have many thanks to give.
They are thankful that the United
States man-of-War Tennessee didn't
sink and thus destroy the navy; that
the coasts are so admirably protected:
that war has not been declared and that
the American people are not living UNI
der Queen Vic'S rule. So let the wellIin
ring. Sound the loud timbrel and let
all nations rejoice for Thanksgiving
day.